1. Frozen Treats
Top your ice cream with a variety of maple from our Ice Cream Pairing Collection for an instant upgrade.
Recipe: Maple Popsicles
Recipe: Summer Berry Semmifredo
Recipe: Maple Pecan Ice Cream
2. Salads
A great vinaigrette needs a touch of sweetness to balance the acidity. Maple brings a complexity and richness that white sugar cannot match – like adding a tad bit of soy sauce instead of salt, the result is more complex and substantial.
Recipe: Arugula Salad with Strawberries, Goat Cheese, Pistachios, and Crispy Quinoa
Recipe: Citrus Beet Salad
3. Barbecue
When we think of grilling and barbecue, we think of glazes that are robust, tangy and slightly sweet. Maple syrup is the perfect ingredient for the sugary component – rich, complex, and already in syrup form to add to sauces and marinades. And, of course, using Runamok’s Hot + Spicy or Smoked Maple Syrup make it that much easier to kick it up a notch.
Recipe: Bourbon Maple Barbecue Wings
Recipe: Smoked Maple Pork Chops
Recipe: Hot + Spicy Maple Butter
Recipe: Grilled Peaches
4. Simple Breakfasts
Just because you have a quick weekday breakfast doesn't mean you can't enjoy it! Even when it's too hot to fire up the stove for pancakes, maple can come to the rescue and save you from a boring breakfast. Try it with fruit, yogurt, granola, oatmeal, toast, and coffee. It is the most important meal of the day, after all...
Recipe: Maple Overnight Oats
Recipe: Strawberry Banana Smoothie
5. Cocktails
Maple is our go-to sweetener for cocktail (and beverages of all sorts)... it's an all-natural, unrefined sweetener with more flavor than a simple syrup, cleaner ingredients than typical artificial flavor additives, and it's already in liquid form for easy mixing into any cool refreshing beverage of your choice.
Blog: Easy Summertime Drinks (three ingredients or less!)
Blog: Grenadine Cocktails for Summer
Recipe: Summer Peach Old Fashioned
6. Fruit
Peaches and cherries and berries... nothing says summer more! Especially here in Vermont where the growing season is short, it feels like fruit deserves it's own celebration. Maple is a great pairing with fresh fruit with oats, yogurt, smoothies, cocktails, and dessserts all season long.
Recipe: Roasted Strawberry and Rhubarb Compote (topping for breakfast or dessert!)
Recipe: Blueberry Peach Smoothie
Recipe: Plum and Ricotta Tart